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#1 Mar 09 2006 at 8:38 AM Rating: Decent
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http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/225884.html wrote:
Who Needs Ratings? Total Ban on Violent Games Proposed in TN


Don't blink. You read that headline correctly.

As reported by WATE-6, Knoxville, Tennessee State Sen. Tommy Kilby (D) has proposed legislation that, in its current form, would make it a crime to sell or rent what it terms "extremely violent" games to anyone, of any age.

Kilby told the T.V. station he wrote SB3981 after receiving feedback from parents and police. Fellow Democrat Les Winningham has proposed an identical bill, HB4053, in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

WATE-6 spoke to one very annoyed 32-year-old gamer. Dave Roland said, "This is not the place of legislature to choose what I as a 32-year-old male am able to play."





I'm just bringing this up because I was dumbfounded that there is a senator that not only ignores the consistent losses that bills intended to restrict the sales of violent video games have had (so far iirc all constitutional challenges have failed once they were brought to court), but makes it even more blatantly unconstitutional by restricting it to ALL ages.

Then I had to laugh at the utter incompetence being presented here.

God Bless Amerika!
#3 Mar 09 2006 at 8:45 AM Rating: Decent
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Why do you hate democracy?

Smiley: frown


Because it pushed me into the pool and laughed at me when I was youngerSmiley: bah
#6 Mar 09 2006 at 9:12 AM Rating: Good
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Finally, a bill I can get behind!
#7 Mar 09 2006 at 5:00 PM Rating: Good
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It's those eeeevil Democrats! See! ;)
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#8 Mar 09 2006 at 5:06 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
It's those eeeevil Democrats! See! ;)
Damn those pesky verbose liberals.

Want a lick of my popsicle gbaji hun?
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#9 Mar 09 2006 at 5:08 PM Rating: Good
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democrats have been on the ban violent video game trip longer than pubbies. Just look at Senator Leiberman
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#10 Mar 09 2006 at 5:12 PM Rating: Good
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Just look at Senator Leiberman


No thanks, it's hard to stare straight into so many liver spots.
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